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Old 05-26-2020, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom9589 View Post
I don't think I would just get ordinary glass. The safety glass is there to protect you from flying glass should the CRT implode. Supposedly, the electron gun can come at you at a high rate of speed if the CRT implodes in a certain manner.
I think the separate safety glass is more to break the impact and prevent implosion than to protect you if it does implode. This means that high strength glass is still desired over ordinary window glass.
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